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of oberhduseri type, with a nut joined to the gullet and two larger 

 free nuts in each row ; egg smooth, oval, in skin. Skin tubercled, 

 warts in many transverse rows, and many in each row. 



Length about 150/a, pharynx 18/i, claws 7/i, fat-cells 6/a, egg 

 42 by 30/i. 



The species resembles M. tuberculatus Plate {6), and M. ornatus 

 Eichters, var. verrucosus (7). From M. tuberculatus it differs in the 

 type of pharynx (two round nuts instead of three) ; the warts 

 much smaller and more numerous in each row. The rows are 

 also more numerous. M. tuberculatus, if I understand it aright, 

 has four or six large tubercles on each segment, and a similar row 

 on each secondary intermediate segment. M. indicus has several 

 rows of tubercles on each segment and intermediate segment. 



It is much nearer M. ornatus var. verrucosus, which has the 

 same type of pharynx, but is distinguished by the larger and 

 regularly arranged tubercles, those of verrucosus being of unequal 

 sizes and scattered. 



M. sattleri Eichters {8). — One example, Singla, 2000 ft. Very 

 small, 150/A long ; pharynx with nut fixed to gullet, and three free 

 nuts increasing in size from first to third. This is the same kind 

 of pharynx which I have seen in what 1 suppose to be 

 M. tuberculatus, to which Eichters considers this species to be 

 related. 



Genus Diphascon. 



D. chilenense Plate (6'). — The only common species of this genus 

 in the Indian moss comes nearest D. chilenense, though there 

 is some doubt as to the identity. The pharynx is shortly oval, 

 never as broad as long, and it is often as narrow and elongate as in 

 D. aljiinum. In all the forms there were three very short equal 

 rods, besides a nut and a comma. Sinihul, 8000 ft. 



D. sp. (?) A very small form, with very long slender gullet, 

 and shortly oval pharynx, having only two short rods, besides the 

 nut and comma. Being a reduced form, without bearers or teeth, 

 it cannot be named. 



Cysts of Diphascon. — In the one sample from Singla, 2000 ft., 

 there were several cysts of a Dijjhascon with oblong pharynx, 

 without rods (simplex form), and possessing eyes. 



Genus Milnesium. 



M. tardigradum Doy {2). — Fairly abundant in moss from 

 Darjiling, 6500 ft., and Baghghora, 6000 ft. The shorter claws 

 of these examples had all three points. 



